Top 10 7. Man hikes 11 miles, 2,200 feet high to reach his parents in NC mountains following Helene’s destruction Dianne Gallagher & Michelle Watson/CNN It had been 48 hours since the winds and rains from Hurricane Helene ripped through...
Top 10 8. Candidates Fontenot and Pittman address voter concerns in public forum Christopher Long/The Wilson Times N.C. House of Representatives District 24 candidates Dante Pittman and Rep. Ken Fontenot, R-Wilson, faced off...
Top 10 9. Cape Fear Valley Health begins rebranding Harnett Health facilities Morgan Casey/CityView Patients googling Harnett Health facilities might see different results in their search. Instead of “Angier Medical Services,” they...
Top 10 10. Endowment announces $14 million in housing grants Kelly Kenoyer/WHQR The New Hanover Community Endowment announced $14 million in housing program grants Monday, September 30. These grants mark...
Top 10 1. ‘Completely and entirely erased’: How Helene swallowed one mountain town Brady Dennis/The Washington Post There was no worship service Sunday morning at the First Baptist Church. No hymns or sermons...
Top 10 2. On the ground in Linville: Washed out roads, no cell service and devastation Marshall Terry/WFAE Radio Western North Carolina is reeling from the devastating floods, landslides and storm damage brought by the remnants...
Top 10 3. NC got VinFast. But how close was Chatham County to landing a Hyundai factory? Brian Gordon/The News & Observer For three decades, North Carolina kept striking out on a major car factory. Mercedes-Benz spurned...
Top 10 4. Appeals court blocks use of digital UNC student IDs for voting Sarah Michels/Carolina Public Press University of North Carolina Chapel Hill students will no longer be able to use their mobile...
Top 10 5. Fierce North Carolina congressional race could hinge on other names on the ballot Makiya Seminera/The Associated Press As Laurie Buckhout made her way around Nash County GOP headquarters in Rocky Mount, she seemed...
Top 10 6. ‘The status quo is the least favorable…option’ Kip Tabb/Outer Banks Voice In a recent four-day span, three Rodanthe homes were claimed by the sea, bringing the total...
Top 10 7. Two rural NC school districts discuss how they responded to the pandemic Hannah Vinueza McClellan/Education NC A national webinar hosted on Wednesday highlighted how two North Carolina rural school districts — Polk...
Top 10 8. ‘I think we’re being short sighted’: Councilors debate altering Brunswick Forest commercial acreage Shea Carver/Port City Daily A request to adjust a 5,000-acre development master land use plan left councilors with more questions...
Top 10 9. Surf City’s 50-year sand plan calls for 22 million cubic yards Trista Talton/Coastal Review If everything goes accordingly, Surf City’s ocean shore may begin getting massive sand injections by the end...
Top 10 10. GoTriangle is at a crossroads after departure of CEO Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh GoTriangle, the regional transit agency for Durham, Orange and Wake counties, is looking for a new leader...
Local Turning the lights on As for electricity, Duke Energy reported hat about 375,000 customers in the west were without power as of 3 p.m....